Mathathias

Mathathias

1. Alternative spelling of Mattathias.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Mathathias.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [maˈtʰa.tʰi.aːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [maˈt̪aː.t̪i.as]

Mathathiās m sg (genitive Mathathiae); first declension

1. alternative spelling of Mattathiās
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Mathathias.

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

• Mathatias (alternative spelling)

From Latin Mathathiās, an alternative form of Mattathiās, from Ancient Greek Μᾰττᾰθῐ́ᾱς (Măttăthĭ́ās), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū).

• IPA^(key): /mataˈtias/

Mathathias m

1. (biblical) Mattathias
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 76r:

     EN ieruſalem era mathathias. […] ⁊ era om̃e q̃ amaua el criador […] e lo temie e ouo .v. fijos muy buenos cauallós e el uno uo nõbre iudas macabeus. e el otro ionatan. ⁊ leaza. e ſimeon. e ioan

     [There] lived in Jerusalem Mattathias, and he was a man that loved the Creator and feared Him. And he had five sons, very upright men, and one had the name Judas Maccabeus, and the other Jonathan, and Eleazar and Simon and John.

• Spanish: Matatías